October 27th"2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 300 of the year! Known as National Black Cat Day, American Beer Day and Navy Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of February 3rd 2023. Your star sign is “Scorpio”.
2016 – A letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen explaining why he was returning his MBE was found tucked in a record sleeve from a £10 car boot haul. It was later valued at £60,000.
Todays birthdays
1939 – John Cleese (84), English actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, A Fish Called Wanda), comedian and screenwriter, born in Weston-super-Mare.
1953 – Peter Firth (70), English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC One programme Spooks; he is the only actor to have appeared in every episode of the programme’s ten-series lifespan, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
1957 – Glenn Hoddle (66), English soccer midfielder (53 caps; Tottenham; Monaco, Swindon, Chelsea) and manager (England, Southampton, Tottenham, Wolverhampton), born in London.

1958 – Simon Le Bon (65), English singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the band Duran Duran (Hungry Like the Wolf, The Reflex), born in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

1984 – Kelly Osbourne (39), English television personality, singer, actress, model, and fashion designer. The daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, born in Westminster, London.
The day today
1968 – An estimated 6,000 marchers demonstrating against the Vietnam War face up to police outside the US Embassy in London.
1979 – Elton John collapsed on stage at Hollywood’s Universal Amphitheatre suffering from exhaustion. On the same day, St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent from Britain.
2016 – A letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen explaining why he was returning his MBE was found tucked in a record sleeve from a £10 car boot haul. It was later valued at £60,000. Lennon had returned the MBE in protest at Britain’s involvement in the Biafra civil war.
2017 – The first successful operation of conjoined twins joined at the head was completed in New Delhi, India. The surgery took 16 hours and a team of 30 doctors.
2018 – Leicester City’s billionaire Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash in the carpark outside the club’s King Power Stadium following the game against West Ham United.
Today in music
1966 – The Four Tops were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There.’ The group’s only UK No.1.
1977 – Baccara were at No.1 in the UK singles chart with ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’. They were the first Spanish act to score a UK No.1, and first female duo to do so. ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’ is also one of the thirty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide.
1980 – Former T. Rex member Steve Took, choked to death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all sensation in his throat, he was aged 31. Took was also a member of The Deviants with Pink Fairies members Twink and Mick Farren.
2006 – Amy Winehouse released her second and final studio album Back to Black. The album spawned five singles: ‘Rehab’, ‘You Know I’m No Good’, ‘Back to Black’, ‘Tears Dry on Their Own’ and ‘Love Is a Losing Game’ and won Best Pop Vocal Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Back to Black sold 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, becoming the UK’s second best-selling album of the 21st century. Worldwide, the album has sold over 20 million copies.
2014 – The Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Always On My Mind’ was voted the top cover version of all time in a BBC Music vote. The song, written by John Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, was first made famous by Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley in 1972. Johnny Cash’s cover of Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hurt’ came in second place, followed by The Stranglers’ version of Dionne Warwick’s ‘Walk On By’. Jimi Hendrix’s take on Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’ came fourth and Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ completed the top five.
Today in history
312 AD – Roman Emperor Constantine had his Vision of the Cross. The vision came during his preparations for battle and led him to believe he was fighting under God’s protection.
1644 – The Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War took place in Speen, adjoining Newbury in Berkshire. The combined armies of Parliament inflicted a tactical defeat on the Royalists, but failed to gain any strategic advantage.
1681 – English Quaker William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681, when King Charles II granted him a charter for over 45,000 square miles of land.

1728 – The birth of Captain James Cook, English naval officer and one of the greatest navigators in history. His voyages in the Endeavour led to the European discovery of Australia, New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands. Thanks to Cook’s understanding of diet, no member of the crew ever died of scurvy, the great killer on other voyages. In his youth he was apprenticed to a ship owner in Whitby… NOTE: His birthday is 7 November 1728 but due to the new Gregorian calendar, the dates changed over from the Julian calendar.

1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
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